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U S SUICIDE

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2016
Hyogo police lieutenant arrested, admits stealing ¥2 million during suicide probe at home
The Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested a 49-year-old lieutenant on Thursday on suspicion of stealing ¥2 million at a residence where he investigated an apparent suicide.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2016
Why women put on the suicide vest
On a list of history's most notorious assassins, alongside John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and Gavrilo Princip, the name Thenmozhi Rajaratnam would probably draw mostly blank stares. But in her way, the Tamil Tiger terrorist — who blew up herself, the Indian leader Rajiv Gandhi and 13 others in May 1991 — has perhaps had the largest lasting influence.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Apr 3, 2016
Death by overwork on rise among Japan's vulnerable workers
As the number of compensation claims related to death from 'karoshi' or overwork soars, more and more younger and female employees are being affected by the phenomenon.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 30, 2016
Landmark new laws put suicide prevention front and center
In what was hailed as a landmark development, the Diet passed an amendment last week to the suicide prevention law for the first time since its enactment 10 years ago — this time requiring local-level authorities to take preventive action.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Mar 23, 2016
Abused boy dies after suicide attempt; questions raised over Japan's care system
A 14-year-old boy died last month of injuries sustained in a suicide attempt just over a year earlier. He had tried to kill himself after applying unsuccessfully for shelter from his parents, whom he alleged were abusive.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 10, 2016
Hiroshima school finds it is to blame following probe into 15-year-old student's suicide
A Hiroshima school's in-house probe into a 15-year-old student's suicide has found its poor clerical management and career guidance is responsible for the death, it emerged Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2016
School apologizes for clerical error that led to student's suicide
The principal of a junior high school in Hiroshima Prefecture apologizes after a boy killed himself from the effects of a data entry mistake.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 8, 2016
Hiroshima boy kills himself after mistakenly told he didn't qualify for entrance exam
A 15-year-old boy in Hiroshima Prefecture committed suicide in December after his school gave him wrong information about his eligibility for a high school entrance exam, the local board of education announced.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 26, 2016
Boy's suicide prompts Tokyo education panel to investigate suspicions of school bullying
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education has set up a special investigative committee to look into whether a 16-year-old boy who killed himself in September had been bullied.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 12, 2016
Man subdued in Sapporo after threatening to kill himself over David Bowie's death
The passing of music legend David Bowie shocked his numerous fans around the world — including a Sapporo man who attempted to kill himself in public.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Dec 9, 2015
Sexual harassment at bōnenkai, inept handling, a suicide
Hokkaido Shimbun case shows how far Japan still has to go to safeguard women's rights in the workplace.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 1, 2015
Tepco settles suit over suicide of Fukushima dairy farmer
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has agreed to make a payment to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a dairy farmer who committed suicide after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, the family's lawyers said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 28, 2015
Japan Coast Guard member found dead after apparent murder of 9-year-old daughter
A 43-year-old Japan Coast Guard member has been found dead in what is believed to be a suicide after apparently killing his 9-year-old daughter Friday in Aichi Prefecture, police said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2015
Body of naked 10-year-old boy found bound in Tokyo
The police open both a suicide and murder investigation after a boy is found dead on a hill in Hino, western Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 13, 2015
Japanese inmate in Indonesian jail on drug charges commits suicide
A Japanese man who was serving an 18-year sentence in an Indonesian prison for drug trafficking was found dead Sunday, apparently after committing suicide, police said.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 12, 2015
California legislature approves bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
The California legislature on Friday approved a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients despite opposition from religious and disability rights groups, sending it to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown for his approval or veto.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2015
A need to reduce school pressures
The link between the end of school breaks and a rise in child suicides highlights the need to reduce school pressures on students.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2015
Man who installed electric fence that killed two picnickers last month commits suicide
Since the July 19 accident, investigators had occasionally interviewed the 79-year-old man, paying attention to his health because of his age, police said.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 26, 2015
Reporter laws are needed to prevent 'bullycide'
The tragic suicide of an Iwate junior high school student demonstrates why Japan needs to enact reporter laws that compel teachers to report suspected cases of bullying to designated agencies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 24, 2015
Texas jail death consistent with suicide; autopsy finds high pot levels: prosecutor
Evidence from an autopsy on Sandra Bland, the black woman found hanging dead in a Texas jail days after a traffic stop, supports the medical examiner's initial ruling of suicide, a county prosecutor told reporters on Thursday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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